BePhotoMagic

 BePhotoMagic is the attempt to make one more dangerous app which allows us to avoid rebooting to a certain monopolizing, crappy platform which shall remain nameless in order to use Photoshop. Some people (like me) are a perhaps more than a little too impatient for Pixel32, GIMP, or Inferno, even though all three are under heavy development and making nice progress. BePhotoMagic takes quite a few features from Adobe Photoshop familiarity, but does certain things differently in hopes of squeezing the most power out of its tools and keeping a relatively intuitive interface. If nothing else, it's been good busy work. ;^)

 The BPM dev team is very interested in hearing your comments, suggestions, and criticism. Only by your feedback can we make changes and add features which the BeOS community wants. E-mail us at bpmagic@columbus.rr.com
 
 

Features:

0.53a Shape tools now use customizable brushes Designed brushes much cleaner when used Rectangular/square brushes now available Text tool is now partially implemented Internal logging system Color Picker works better Improved file I/O stability Many miscellaneous cleanups 0.52 a Easily customizable brushes, including sprite brushes. Easy-to-create plugins - libimagemanip SDK Working plugin interface Keyboard shortcuts Rudimentary shape tools

 

Features to come:

Selections/masks Preferences saved - currently in need of being rewritten Better menu layout All tools working (fill, spline, etc.) Previews of files before opening them Config windows for plugins

Getting Started:
 

Known Issues:

Paintbrush Still does not draw as it goes, but does work better Selection Tools Do not actually select anything yet Bezier Unimplemented Stamper Leaves a graphical artifact behind when switching tools, but has no effect on the image itself Bucket Does not work Move Flicker problem when moving image around Layer window Upon opening, active layer is reset to the background layer Color Picker Hitting a shortcut key while window is open does not update the window color cursors Papers Currently disabled Filters Create a new image which can neither be undone nor closed Work, but configuration windows are unimplemented UI Two different Rotation routines exist in the menus Preferences work, but will save only a couple things - needs rewritten Option Window Options for each tool are unimplemented Opening the Option window sets tool opacity to 0% Transforms Flip Horizontal doesn't quite work right (legacy bug) Flip Vertical unimplemented File I/O Opening a file that doesn't have a translator (like, say, a ZIP file) will crash the app The gimp PAT translator will crash whatever app using it when opening certain PAT files

Bugfixes:

0.53a Improvements in paintbrush workings Better menu organization Rectangle is finished Ellipse works better Selection tools leave no graphical artifacts 0.52a Opening and saving files no longer crashes Color selector doesn't reset your colors upon re-open Rectangle tool actually works Select Range does not crash the app

Nice stuff to know which has little effect on actually using it:
Small download - 650K
Free to distribute and modify
Built for BeOS from the ground up
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